Shane Young
Academic Coordinator, Indigenous Knowledges and Experiences Certificate
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Community Services
School of Social Work
Toronto, Ontario
shane.young@torontomu.ca
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(416) 979-5000 ext. 556220
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Bio/Research
Shane’s current research, Politics, Identity, & Relations in the Development of the Qalipu Mi'kmaq First Nation in Taqamkuk (Newfoundland), is a twelve-month pilot project that will further develop his research program. It expands the concept of a cultural critique of dominant, modern relationshi...
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Bio/Research
Shane’s current research, Politics, Identity, & Relations in the Development of the Qalipu Mi'kmaq First Nation in Taqamkuk (Newfoundland), is a twelve-month pilot project that will further develop his research program. It expands the concept of a cultural critique of dominant, modern relationships to "identity and authenticity" to include the 2017 federal government’s decision to review the founding list of the Qalipu Mi'kmaq First Nation of Southwestern Newfoundland. Moreover, to unearth the implications of the points-based criteria to authenticate what constitutes Indigeneity or "Indianness" under the Indian Act. This research is an extension of his previous master’s degree research, Are You Native Enough? An Analysis of White Passability Among Indigenous Peoples in an Urban Context.
Shane’s doctoral research undertakes a cultural critique of dominant, modern relationships to "identities" through a cross-cultural philosophical engagement with certain Indigenous (North American) traditions of thought. Focusing on the definition of Indigenous relational ontology as ‘being with' all parts of creation, as an interrelated and interconnected part of the living, non-living, animate worlds, and particularly land. This essence of ontology further incorporates and acknowledges current colonial constructs of identity and ways in which Western worldviews effect and continue to interfere with Indigenous identities construction and maintenance on an individual and communal level.
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Shane’s doctoral research undertakes a cultural critique of dominant, modern relationships to "identities" through a cross-cultural philosophical engagement with certain Indigenous (North American) traditions of thought. Focusing on the definition of Indigenous relational ontology as ‘being with' all parts of creation, as an interrelated and interconnected part of the living, non-living, animate worlds, and particularly land. This essence of ontology further incorporates and acknowledges current colonial constructs of identity and ways in which Western worldviews effect and continue to interfere with Indigenous identities construction and maintenance on an individual and communal level.
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